Wednesday, October 3, 2012

CCC Evaluation

 
FDR would be proud to know the CCC was still at large.  The project idea is clever and excitable.  It's guidelines and structure seem as stable as my children-hating third grade teacher.  I'll elaborate.
 
First of all, this is something that people want to get involved in.  It’s not a group report on watching paint dry, it’s a story—something that people can get passionate about.  That’s probably the strongest point of the project.
Here’s your biggest problem.  Your goal is…  well, I’ll say “lacking” because I don’t want to get beat up after class.  Sell one copy of your book on amazon?  A total grand profit of less than a dollar and all you’ve proved is that writers live and die poor.  Is money what you’re really trying to prove?  How about the God-give greatness of working together?  That’s something your project could prove, something that could matter.  Believe it or not, a lot of people think crowd sources is killing what makes individualism.  You’re project could be aimed at proving an individual can still keep his/her identity even when working in a group and still accomplish more than just working alone.  And trust me, crowd sources can be a great thing.  Scientist worked for a decade to figure out a certain strand for an aids breakthrough with no luck.  By taking the problem and turning it into a game then crowd sourcing it to gamers, the problem was solved in 10 days.  Here’s the actual article, you can use it for one of your literary reviews:
In other words, crowd sourcing can lead to amazing things without destroying individualism (or can it?).  I’d suggest you either take that as a main goal, or find something that really makes a stand more than scoring that whopping one dollar bill.
Otherwise, great stuff!


No comments:

Post a Comment